someguy3@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoI wonder how much of youtube content is hardcoded sponsor ads.message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1144arrow-down1message-squareI wonder how much of youtube content is hardcoded sponsor ads.someguy3@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up82arrow-down2·11 months agoThat’s what sponsor block is for.
minus-squareGenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·11 months agoYou can download the entire SponsorBlock database (see https://sponsor.ajay.app/database and https://github.com/mchangrh/sb-mirror ), so it should be possible to calculate a reasonably accurate answer to OP’s question. You’d need to estimate for the videos absent from the database, of course.
minus-squareAshyr@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoIs there a way to combo sponsor block with YouTube dl?
minus-squaremeow@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·11 months agoyt-dlp works, not sure about youtube-dl
minus-squareGrammaton Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoWell, then we’ll never know!
That’s what sponsor block is for.
You can download the entire SponsorBlock database (see https://sponsor.ajay.app/database and https://github.com/mchangrh/sb-mirror ), so it should be possible to calculate a reasonably accurate answer to OP’s question.
You’d need to estimate for the videos absent from the database, of course.
Is there a way to combo sponsor block with YouTube dl?
yt-dlp works, not sure about youtube-dl
That’s amazing! Thank you!
Well, then we’ll never know!